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Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1847, and gained fame for his novel "Dracula" about an aristocratic vampire in Transylvania. The sequel, "Dracula's Guest," was not published for 17 years after the publication of "Dracula," two years after Stoker's death. Stoker also wrote "The Mystery of the Sea" and "Famous Imposters." He was the stage manager for actor Sir Henry Irving and wrote "Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving," after Irving's death.- Producer
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Thomas A. Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, USA as Thomas Alva Edison. He was a producer and director, known for silent movies such as, The Trick Cyclist (1901), The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) and Bicycle Trick Riding, No. 2 (1899). He also produced the first American film version of Frankenstein in 1910. That was of course, twenty years before Universal Studios introduced the monster with Boris Karloff. This paved the way for modern day horror as we now know it. Edison is however, perhaps better known as an inventor of many conveniences like the light bulb. He of course produced many other inventions like, among others, the phonograph, power stations, the carbon switch microphone, and motion picture cameras. These advancements gave him a firm place in the history of American Greatness as well as American film production.
He was married to Mina Miller and Mary Stilwell. He died on October 18, 1931 in West Orange, New Jersey, USA.- James O'Neill was born on 15 November 1847 in Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Count of Monte Cristo (1913), West Is West (1920) and The Grain of Dust (1918). He was married to Ellen Quinlan. He died on 10 August 1920 in New London, Connecticut, USA.
- Legendary British stage actress who made a few silent film appearances. The daughter of strolling players, she was born in Coventry into an almost exclusively theatrical family. Her grandparents were actors, as were all six of her siblings. But only her son, Edward Gordon Craig, would in any way approach her fame in the theatre, albeit as a designer rather than as an actor. She made her debut in 1856 at the age of 8 before an audience which included Queen Victoria. By age 11, she had played a dozen roles including Puck. At 16, after showing early brilliance, she played "An American Cousin" (a year before the famed American production clouded by Lincoln's assassination) and then retired. After six years, still only 22, she returned to the stage and in 1875 played a landmark Portia in "The Merchant of Venice." For the next three decades, she played every major Shakespearean role opposite the greatest British tragedians, in England and in America. Her long association with theatrical giant Henry Irving ended with his death, but a year later, in 1906, she began a long professional and personal relationship with George Bernard Shaw. After more than half a century onstage, she undertook a tour of England, America, and Australia, lecturing on the theatre and on Shakespeare. She was coaxed into a film appearance in 1916 and played in a handful of additional pictures through 1922. Created a Dame by George V in 1925, she was the recipient of virtually every honor available to a figure of the English-speaking stage. After a long illness, she died at 81 from a combination of stroke and heart attack at her home in Smallhythe Place, Tenterdon, Kent, England. Her long estranged husband, James Carew, survived her.
- Jesse James was born on 5 September 1847 in Clay County, Missouri, USA. He was married to Zerelda Mimms. He died on 3 April 1882 in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.
- Czarina Maria Fyodorovna was born on 26 November 1847 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was married to Czar Aleksandr III. She died on 16 October 1928 in Hvidøre, Klampenborg, Denmark.
- Alexander Graham Bell was born on 3 March 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was married to Mabel Hubbard. He died on 2 August 1922 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Kálmán Mikszáth was born on 16 January 1847 in Szklabonya, Hungary [now Sklabiná, Slovakia]. He was a writer, known for Kísértet Lublón (1976), A Noszty fiú esete Tóth Marival (1960) and And the Puszta Gleams (1933). He was married to Ilona Mauks. He died on 28 May 1910 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary].
- Annie Besant, English writer, socialist and feminist activist, was born in 1847, the only daughter of William B. P. Wood, a non-practicing physician, and the former Emily Morris. Both were Anglo-Irish Protestants. Annie was raised a devout Anglican, and religion remained an important factor throughout her life, providing the decisive spur to her pioneering work for social justice. Educated privately by Miss Marryat, sister of the novelist Frederick Marryat, Annie Wood married Frank Besant, a clergyman, in 1867. The marriage produced two children, a daughter, Mabel, and a son, Digby. Frank's mental cruelty and physical violence led to a legal separation in 1873 and Annie's abandonment of her naive Christianity. She was associated with the radical atheist Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891) and the socialist Fabian Society. Besant and Bradlaugh published a treatise advocating birth control and were prosecuted; as a result she lost custody of her daughter. In 1889 she became a disciple of the Russian spiritualist and mystic Madame Blavatsky. Thereafter she went to India where she founded the Central Hindu College in 1898. Her Theosophy and the New Psychology was published in 1904. She became president of the Theosophical Society in 1907, a post she held until her death. She also became involved in the Indian independence movement, established the Indian Home Rule League in 1916, and became the only British woman to serve as president of the Indian National Congress in 1917.
- Boleslaw Prus (real name Aleksander Glowacki), 1847-1912, writer and journalist; played critical role in modernizing the Polish novel; co-creator of Polish Realism; humoresques, novellas, short stories: Klopoty babuni (Grandmother's Troubles, 1874), Powracajaca fala (The Returning Wave, 1880), Antek (1881), Kamizelka (The Vest, 1882), novelistic sketches incl. Anielka (1880), the touching tale of a child and poor people wronged by fate or social conditions; novels with a permanent place in Polish literature: Placowka (The Outpost, 1886), the first naturalistic novel, a depiction of agrarian colonization; Lalka (The Doll, 1890), epic panorama of Warsaw life 1878-79; socially engaged Emancypantki (The Emancipationists, 1894); historical-political portrayal of ancient Egypt in Faraon (Pharoah, 1897); wealth of journalism in the Warsaw press: Kroniki (Weekly Chronicles, 1953-70).
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Tan Xinpei was born on 23 April 1847 in Wuchang, Wuhan, Hubei, China. He was an actor, known for In the Mood for Love (2000), Dingjunshan (1905) and Chang ban po (1905). He died on 10 May 1917 in Beijing, China.- Writer
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Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves was a Brazilian poet and playwright, famous for his abolitionist and republican poems. One of the most famous poets of the "Condorism", he won the epithet of "O Poeta dos Escravos" ("The Poet of the Slaves").
He is the patron of the 7th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.- Coming from an aristocratic Prussian family, Paul von Hindenburg joined the Prussian army as a young man, retiring as a general in 1913 at age 66. Recalled to duty during World War I, he was placed in command of the German forces at the battle of Tannenberg in 1914 against the Russians which, due to a combination of his skillful tactics and staggeringly incompetent leadership on the part of the Russian generals, resulted in a disastrous defeat for the Russian army, which lost an estimated 350,000 men. In 1916 he was made supreme commander of all German forces. He retired from the army again in 1919, but in 1925 returned to public life as a candidate for President of Germany, and won the election. He ran for re-election in 1932, not so much because he wanted to but because he was considered the only candidate who could beat Adolf Hitler, which he proceeded to do. Hindenburg had little use for Hitler and the Nazi party and did what he could to thwart their grab for power, but it was too little too late--in 1933, due to the Nazi party's gains in local and national elections and their majority of seats in the German parliament, Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor, and later he signed the Enabling Act of 1933, which granted sweeping powers to the government formed by Hitler. Frustrated, frail and in poor health, Hindenburg died the next year.
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Àngel Guimerà was born on 6 May 1847 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for El padre Juanico (1923), Lowlands (1954) and Tierra baja (1912). He died on 18 July 1924 in Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain.- Paul Mounet was born on 5 October 1847 in Bergerac, Dordogne, France. He was an actor, known for The Return of Ulysses (1909), Macbeth (1909) and L'héritière (1910). He was married to Philippine Madeleine André Barbot. He died on 10 February 1922 in Paris, France.
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Giuseppe Giacosa was born on 21 October 1847 in Colleretto Giacosa, Piedmont, Italy. He was a writer, known for Deep Impact (1998), Quantum of Solace (2008) and 22 Bullets (2010). He was married to Maria Bertola. He died on 2 September 1906 in Colleretto Giacosa, Piedmont, Italy.- Actor
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Oscar Hammerstein was born on 8 May 1847 in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia [now Szczecin, Poland]. He was an actor, known for The Universal Boy (1914). He was married to Mary Emma Miller Swift, Melvina Jacobi and Rose Blau. He died on 1 August 1919 in New York, New York, USA.- Ida McKinley was born on 8 June 1847 in Canton, Ohio, USA. She was married to William McKinley. She died on 26 May 1907 in Canton, Ohio, USA.
- Edward P. Vining was born on 14 January 1847 in Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA. Edward P. was a writer, known for Hamlet (1921). Edward P. died in 1920.
- Andrew Waldron was born on 20 September 1847 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Midnight Faces (1926), The Lure of the Circus (1918) and The Red Glove (1919). He died on 1 March 1932.
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George Grossmith was born on 9 December 1847 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Time Machine (2002), Six (1964) and Wilson (1944). He died on 1 March 1912 in Folkestone, Kent, England, UK.- Peter E. Butler was born on 30 January 1847 in County Longford, Ireland. He died on 21 November 1926 in Ferndale, Michigan, USA.
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Wordsworth Donisthorpe was an English barrister, individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast. He studied at Leeds Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1876 he filed a patent for a film camera which he named a "kinesigraph." In 1885, he was the co-founder of the British Chess Association and the British Chess Club. He was associated with the Liberty and Property Defence League until his split from the League in 1888. In 1890, together with his cousin William Carr Crofts, he produced a moving picture of London's Trafalgar Square (1890). The camera that produced this moving picture was patented in 1889 along with the projector necessary to show the motion frames. In 1893, he was one of the founding members and President of the children's rights and free love advocacy organisation the Legitimation League; he left the organization in 1897.- Frederik Christensen was born on 20 January 1847 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Den store Cirkusbrand (1913), Livets baal (1912) and Den kære Afdøde (1912). He was married to Elisabeth Christensen. He died on 4 March 1929 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- G.R. Sims was born on 2 September 1847 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Master and Man (1929). He was married to Annie Maria Harriss, Sarah Elizabeth Collis and Elizabeth Florence Wykes. He died on 4 September 1922 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.